NPR News: 03-05-2026 9AM EST

0:00This message comes from Carvana. Finance and buy your next vehicle with Carvana. Shop a huge selection, customize terms to fit your budget, and buy completely online. No hassle, no pressure. Get the car you love the easy way with Carvana. Live from NPR News in Washington on Corvo Coleman, the U.S. and Israel continue to attack sites in Iran and Iran continues to fire back at Israel and neighboring countries. There are reports of explosions in Gulf states such as Qatar and Bahrain. Meanwhile, officials in Azerbaijan say Iranian drone struck their country injuring two people. Doree Baskar in reports from Istanbul, it's the first time Azerbaijan has been hit. The drone struck an airport in the region of Najivan, around noon local time on Thursday. The airport sits about six miles from the Iranian border in Azerbaijan's landlocked autonomous region. In a statement, Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said a drone crashed into a terminal building, and that another crashed next to a school nearby. The Ministry condemned the attack and demanded that Iran provide an explanation,

1:04saying that Azerbaijan reserves the right to take appropriate retaliatory measures. Friend Carvana news, I'm Doree Baskar. Natural gas prices continue to rise in Europe and Asia, as the war with Iran continues to affect energy infrastructure. NPR's Julia Simon reports that infrastructure includes the largest liquefied natural gas terminal in the world. To make liquefied natural gas, companies cool natural gas, so it becomes liquid, then transport it around the world on ships. That natural gas is eventually used for electricity, heating, making plastics. A fifth of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, was supplied by Qatar, but Iranian drone strikes hit Qatar Energy's LNG facility earlier this week. Now the company shut down production and declared false majeur. A legal term relieving them from contractual obligations, markets in Asia and Europe won't be getting that Qatari LNG for weeks, if not months. Julia Simon and Pair News. The House of Representatives is scheduled to take up a vote today on limiting President

2:07Trump's war powers in Iran. A similar vote failed yesterday in the Senate, mostly along party lines. The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. Lawmakers in both parties want her to testify in their investigation into late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and Pierre Sage Miller has more. Bondi would be the highest ranking official in the Trump administration to testify as part of the committee's investigation into Epstein. The Attorney General has come under fire for her handling of the Epstein files. Congress ordered the Justice Department to release the material, but some lawmakers have accused the DOJ of not complying with the law by unnecessarily redacting certain information and not publishing all the files as it should have. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to NPR's requests for comment on the subpoena. Committee Democrats want to subpoena President Trump, whose name appears numerous times in the files, but Republicans say they do not believe it's necessary.

3:08Sage Miller, NPR News. Andrew listening to NPR News from Washington. The family of a Florida man who died by suicide last year is suing Big Tech Company Google. The suit alleges Google's AI chatbot Gemini convinced the 36-year-old man to try to carry out a mass casualty attack and then take his life. The father of Jonathan Gavales filed a lawsuit in California. Google says it has designed its chatbot against encouraging real-world violence and against self-harm. Google is a financial supporter of NPR. Billionaire Elon Musk is expected to be back in a San Francisco courtroom today for a civil trial. Former investors of the social media platform Twitter accused him of fraudulently scheming to depressed Twitter stock price as he moved to buy it in 2022. From Member Station KQED Sarah Housaini reports. On the stand Wednesday, Musk downplayed any potential impact of public statements he made

4:09that some investors say inspired them to prematurely sell their stock. In one tweet, Musk said the deal was temporarily on hold. In others, he criticized Twitter's analysis of spam bots. Plaintiffs argue he was motivated by a dip in Tesla's worth. Money he intended to use to buy Twitter. Musk said his tweets were simply about speaking his mind, not swaying stock prices, adding that those investors who held onto their shares did well in the end. For MPR News, I'm Sarah Housaini. Voters of Cast Ballots today, national elections in the Asian nation of Nepal. This comes after last September's anti-government uprising led by younger Nepalese. I'm Corva Kulman, NPR News. Listen to this podcast sponsor-free on Amazon Music with a Prime membership or any podcast app by subscribing to NPR News Now Plus at plus.npr.org. That's plus.npr.org.